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Please note: I have not studied maths beyond high school
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I hope that you don't mind my using Round 1 to get started; if you're not happy, just ask and I will forfeit the last round in lieu.
It strikes me as an almost done deal that pi is known to be irrational. I say almost because I can see a very, very tiny room for debate about what the word "know" means.
Many independent proofs of the irrationality of pi have been provided over the years that mathematicians have been studying it; these proofs have all been subject to scrutiny from other mathematicians in a process of peer review... I would say that one can trust any one of these proofs with almost complete certainty; when there are so many of them, even if they are too complex for your current understanding of maths to confirm for yourself, that almost complete certainty approaches perfect certainty as close as I feel merits the description that we know it's irrational. I think that in order for you to argue that we don't know, you would have to tighten the definition of knowledge so far as to become a solipsist. Either that or you would have to suspect a conspiracy of mathematicians from all over the World who are all lying about their professional opinion that the matter is proven beyond contention; this seems unlikely in the extreme because I cannot fathom what their motive could possibly be!
But it goes further than that... pi is one of the rare examples of a known transcendental number; all transcendental numbers are irrational and many proofs have been given that pi is transcendental. To question pi's irrationality is to question it's transcendence. It seems to me quite mean to wish to strip everybody's favourite mathematical constant of it's special properties!
I've had a look at some proofs and have to concede that most are too complicated for my current level of mathematics for me to be able to confirm them easily myself, although I am most of the way working through Niven's and will have confirmed it to my own satisfaction soon.
I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that we have calculated pi to literally trillions of decimal places; nobody has yet spotted a pattern in that sequence of digits (but not for lack of trying!). And that leads me onto the point which I'd like to finish on: with the irrationality of pi being a mathematically accepted fact, imagine the kudos that would be awarded to anybody who could show otherwise! I am personally totally convinced (and will be more so when I get to the end of Niven's proof) that pi cannot be expressed as a fraction... but would not the failed attempts of thousands of years of trying also count as extremely suggestive?
Finally, I'd like to say thank you for bringing up such an interesting question that has to a degree challenged my own assumptions, trust, knowledge and confidence in the field of mathematics!
Over to you...
I have watched https://www.youtube.com... which is Ivan Niven's proof but even this seems too complicated for me. However if it still makes sense after I have made my points then I will trust you on this.
The thousands of years people have been trying to work out pi is partly why I believe it's rationality is unknown, and when people say that pi's trillionth decimal place has been calculated it doesn't make me think we are any closer in finding out whether Pi is rational or irrational.
I have worked out how to estimate pi without string by "straightening" the circumference so it can be measured with a ruler but if you draw an ever smaller section of an ever larger circle it will never completely straighten the circumference.
Pi is most commonly calculated by using Archimedes method with polygons [1]. A value which is called "Pi" can be produced to an infinite number of decimal places since you can place any sided polygon inside a circle, and obviously there are an infinite number of numbers.
Pi = circumference/diameter
A circle with 1 side is not the same as a polygon with infinite sides even if it appears to our eyes it is. What we call "Pi" is actually equal to an approximation of the circumference divided by diameter OR is the exact circumference divided by an approximation of the diameter. This makes "Pi" or 3.14.... an accurate approximation, nothing else, even if we calculate Pi to infinity, at least in my opinion anyway.
If the true value of Pi is unknown then how can anyone know whether it is rational or irrational?
I look forward to hearing your reply.
[1] https://www.youtube.com...
I totally understand your correct position that "it doesn't matter how many trillion digits you determine, you haven't demonstrated irrationality". I offered the idea only as suggestive evidence, not as a serious route to demonstrating rigorous proof.
Reading between the lines in what you've written about polygons approximating circles, I conclude that you have deep suspicions about infinite series. I understand this; Infinities and how to handle them have long been hotly contested by professional mathematicians... there is now almost universal consensus, though, and in cases such as the determination of the rationality of pi I doubt that you'll find a single professional mathematician in the World who would admit to even the slightest doubt. I myself, not being a professional mathematician, admit to areas of personal doubt in mathematics (such as Cantor's Diagonal Argument) where I have to deal with the cognitive dissonance of trusting the mathematical consensus whilst harbouring secret reservations. As it happens, I suspect that the handling of infinite series is exactly the nub of your doubt; I've spent a long time soul-searching the questions that arise around this topic and getting comfortable with some infinite series, so perhaps I am in a position of being able to convince you of those things which I have satisfied myself about; I'm gonna try, at least!
First up, I'm going to point out something that might seem, at first glance, to throw into question how much we can trust decimal expansions. It is simply this:
0.999... is strictly equal to 1
Now, that's not approximately equal to... that is identical to. Fortunately, since both representations (0.999... and 1.000...) are infinitely recurring decimal expansions, they share the property of being rational... but... what would happen if there were such an equality in which one side was recurring and the other was not? Is such a thing possible? Well, how about we go the other way and consider the possibility of a number that differs from 1.000... by being just one digit larger in the "last" digit? Such a thing, were it possible, would clearly not be a recurring decimal expansion and it would be as close to 1.000... as is 0.999... (literally no difference!) - but, since the focus here is working out what ratio we could use to arrive at our desired number, we can establish that we would need the ratio of (infinity plus one) to (infinity) to produce this number... and since (infinity plus one) is equal to (infinity), we simply get 1... or, you could just say "you can't have infinity plus one" and let the trail go cold. I cannot offer you a rigorous proof that you'll easily grasp at this point, but I hope that you can accept in your heart and mind that constructing an equality with a recurring decimal and a non-recurring decimal is impossible. This is, I contend, one way of looking at the concept that rationality and irrationality are "real" concepts! This is just one way of looking at the limit of the definition of what a recurring decimal *is* (since we can never list all of the digits of any number).
The take home idea that I'd like you to consider from this example is loosely expressible as "the infinitieth digit really doesn't matter".
Now, I'd like to take a little time to explore how one can convert any recurring decimal expansion into a ratio. I suspect you may have seen the method, but here it is being used to work out what 0.345345345... is as a ratio (I honestly just made that number up off the top of my head):
x = 0.345345345...
1000x = 345.345345345...
999x = 345
x = 345/999
x = 115/333
Looking at that third step, we are asked to accept that when we shift the digits three to the left and subtract, *all* of the remaining expansion of the decimal cancels out... even the final three digits, which intuitively don't exist in the 1000x line. I'm hoping that you accept the validity of the logic despite the slightly jarring counter-intuitiveness. Our intuition is sometimes wrong!
The take-home idea that I'd like you to consider from this example is loosely expressible as "any arbitrarily large number of digits from the extreme end of a decimal expansion really don't matter"!
Now, if the final digit, or indeed the final million digits don't matter, why is that? It doesn't sit well with our intuition! Simply put, though, we can say that differing by an infinitely small amount IS the same thing as being equal. This is not just a "for all practicable purposes" argument... this is a statement of absolute equality. I'd be interested to know where you stand at this point in my exposition!
Now to extend into slightly more abstract infinite cancellations...
Consider S = 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 ... ad infinitum
Then S/2 = 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 ... ad infinitum
Therefore S - S/2 = 1
Therefore S = 2
Hopefully you are still comfortable that we are on reasonable grounds. There is danger here, to be noted... this is not necessarily going to hold if the terms of our infinite sequence are increasing in magnitude!
I'm going to end this round, soon, a little lamely (I'm running out of time this evening and characters to use, and I'd like to know where you stand before carrying on any further).
You alluded to polygonal approximations of pi... we can construct a triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, etc, of unit "radius" and get closer and closer approximations of the area of the circle (and, thence, pi) by this method. Since this is an infinite series in which successive terms strictly decrease, we can in theory get a good handle on what the devil pi is!
In the light of what you said about multifaceted polygons approximating but never equalling circles, I'd point out that the nature of talking about series that approach the limits of infinity are such that, in fact, an infinitely-sided polygon is identical to a circle... and that's the very nature of calculus in a nutshell... put another way, there is no more than an infinitesimal difference between the two, which should be sufficient. But, even if you are not happy with the accuracy of the physical model in Euclidian space, I hope that I have persuaded you of the truth contained in the infinite algebraic expansions... essentially, I appeal to your reason to accept that a convergent series that approaches the answer we desire at infinity is not just "sufficient for practical purposes" but is, in fact, absolutely, completely, truthfully, mathematically accurately the right answer... and that this level of precision is absolutely sufficient for determining whether a decimal expansion is recurring and whether a given constant is, in fact, irrational.
Certainly I have not tried to outline a proof of pi's irrationality here; all I have tried to do is to lift Con's apparent mental block towards the possibility that mathematics has the authority to even talk to the rationality of pi.
Depending on Con's response to these musings, I may continue on this path or I may return to trying to win the debate for the next round : )
My position:
I accept the number calculated using Archemede's method known as Pi is an irrational number, because not seeing any numbers repeating in a sequence in one trillion digits is good enough evidence as any.
You have hit the nail on the head about what I disagree on i.e. infinity, and having read your arguments I will accept that if 0.9999... equals 1 then Pi has been calculated exactly, and is "known" even if we can't ever write down all of the digits.
I didn't realize there were so many ways to show 0.999.. equals 1, see below
The simplest is: 0.1111... = 1/9
multiply both sides by 9
0.9999... = 1
Another is: S = 0.999...
Then 10S = 9.999...
And then there is your method too, which is equally good.
However I believe the decimal system is made more for practical purposes
Let's look at the first one, my instinct is not to type 0.999... when I multiply 0.111... by 9. I'd simply put 1.
It just seems like a clever trick to show 0.999 and 1 are the same thing, when really when we say 0.111... is 1/9 it is because this is the best way to show what one ninth is in a decimal format.
You say there is no number between 0.999... and 1, however I believe there is. This number is 0.00000.....1 which is basically an infinitely small number and is the same as 0.0000... 2 and 0.0000...3 etc.
Take a look at the below to see where my idea is from:
0.9 + 0.1 = 1
0.999 + 0.001 = 1
0.999999 + 0.000001 = 1
if I have 1 million 9's after 0, I need 1 million minus 1 zeros before 1. I thus need to make an addition to make a whole number..
You are saying that 0.999999... = 1 ,meaning that 0.00...1 is equal to EXACTLY ZERO
If this is true then 0.9999.... + (0.000...1 x 0.9999...) should equal 1
Consider another equation
0.9999.... + (0.000...1 to the power of 0.999....) = _______
The point I'm trying to make is that an infinitely small number is still a number.
Mathematicians solve the above by saying that anything multiplied by zero is equal to zero, and you have showed that 0.000...1 is equal to zero so you would fill the blank space with either 1 or 0.999...
I have a deep mistrust of maths, e.g. answer the following,
How many degrees are there in a square?
How many degrees are there in a triangle?
How many degrees are there in a circle?
If you have remembered what you are taught you will have said that a square and circle both have 360 degrees when a circle is NOT a square.
If we accept that a triangle has 180 degrees and make the infinitely small number be known as K then the internal angle of a circle should be (180 - K) x any reoccurring whole number.
I'd also like you to consider the following
Time can be continually split in half. Imagine having a sophisticated timer and lamp. The lamp is on, but after exactly 1 minute the lamp is turned off. When 30 seconds pass it is turned on. After 15 seconds the lamp is turned off. It will be turned on after 7.5 seconds, and so on. This demonstrates the existence of 0.000....1 i.e. an infinitely small number. The same can be done with space too, though we like to think space is limited and this is why I think mathematicians say that 0.999... is equal to 1.
If 0.999... equals 1, and thus 0.000...1 doesn't matter since it is nothing then you should in my opinion be able to tell me whether the light will be on or off in exactly 2 minutes of the above experiment.
I welcome any new arguments.
Con says:
"having read your arguments I will accept that if 0.9999... equals 1 then Pi has been calculated exactly, and is "known" even if we can't ever write down all of the digits."
But Con then offers two proofs and accepts mine that 0.9999... equals 1!
I'm a little confused. However, I can only assume that Con does not accept any of the presented proofs that nought point nine recurring equals one, since Con later rejects them.
Con also clearly understands something important when they say that 0.00...1 is the same as 0.00...2 which is the same as 0.00...3 which is the same as an infinitely small number (which is the same as 0).
Or, does Con still disagree with this?
Okay, let's look in more detail at what the representation "0.999..." means. It is simply the sum of the following infinite series:
9/10, 9/100, 9/1000, 9/10000, 9/100000, 9/1000000, etc.
It's basically like starting with 0.9 and then repeating the step "now get 90% closer to 1" an infinite number of times. Infinite! That means you never stop getting 90% closer. Yes, when you start at 0.9 and get 90% closer to 1 an infinite number of times you arrive at 1, despite the false intuition that there must therefore always be 10% left. 10% of what? 10% of nothing is what! Not convinced, still? Well, how far away from 0 is it? It's less than a tenth, less than a hundredth, less than a thousandth, less than an infinitieth.. and that really is 0.
It's just a different way of writing 1, when all is said and done. A bit like 1/2 is another way of writing 0.5. The underlying value that we are using this odd human notation to denote is the same thing! 0.999... is not just equal to one, it's the same thing!
and I did say:
"having read your arguments I will accept that if 0.9999... equals 1 then Pi has been calculated exactly, and is "known" even if we can't ever write down all of the digits".
this is because it makes sense to say Pi is irrational "IF" Pi is a number which can have two different representations, I'm not going to ask for the 2 trillionth digit and declare the rationality is unknown, I wouldn't have a debate where I can't learn anything.
When I offered two proofs showing 0.999.. equals 1, it is not because I believe any are correct. In fact I believe they are examples of BAD MATHS (only when dealing with a crazy amount of precision though)
Let's look at the second proof that I showed in round 3, with my corrections, see below:
S = 0.999.. i.e. 1 - k
10S = 10 - 10k
(10 - 10k) - (1 - k) = 9 - 9k
S = 1 - k
At this point you may be thinking 'hang on I've said 0.00...1 and 0.00...2 etc are the same, so surely I should write 10k as 1k' and you may tell me it should look like the below:
S = 1 - k
10S = 10 - k
(10 - k) - (1 - k) = 9
Though the end result of 10k and k is the same, they are not the same, and therefore should not be treated the same! Doing so is BAD MATHS in my opinion.
Infinitely small numbers are much like infinitely large numbers, imagine you can live forever and can press a button to double your money, you will be infinitely rich, pressing a button which can quadruple your money each time will not change how wealthy you can be, however with the second button you can get rich faster.
Alternatively imagine if I lost half of my money every second and someone else lost a quarter of their money each time, it is natural to say we will both end up with "nothing" but the pattern actually continues for eternity. Applying this maths someone can have an infinite amount less than me. But it is possible to make it so that a person always has 10 times less than me.
Let's move on now..
0.999... = 0.9 + 0.09 + 0.009 + 0.0009 etc
1 = 1 + 0...
So, basically 0.999.. is ALWAYS less than 1, and by an infinite amount i.e. 0.00...1
Onto your comments, why is the internal angle of a circle 179.99...?
How to calculate internal angles of polygons - let's take an octagon which as you know has 8 sides,
360/8 = 45 degrees
There are 180 degrees in a triangle, so the other angles add up to 180 - 45 = 135
There are 8 sides, so an octagon has a total of (8 x 135) degrees = 1080 degrees
If we have a 16 sides shape now
360/16 = 22.5 degrees
There are 180 degrees in a triangle, so the other angles add up to 180 - 22.5 = 157.5
It will therefore have total of (16 x 157.5) = 2520 degrees
If we have a million sided shape now
360/1 million = 0.00036
There are 180 degrees in a triangle, so the other angles add up to 180 - 0.00036 = 179.99964
It will therefore have (1 million x 179.99964) = 179999640 degrees
As you can see the more sides there are in a polygon the closer the angle "OF ONE SIDE" becomes to 180. A circle only has one side! I can place any numbered side polygon inside a circle and the angle will never reach 180, because only a straight line has 180 degrees. The internal angle of a circle is therefore 179.99... degrees
Having written that I have come to realize that an infinite sided polygon perfectly represents a one sided circle, and concede to defeat.
I would like to thank you for having this debate. You have helped to convince myself that the rationality of Pi is known, and that Pi (circumference/diameter) is without doubt an irrational number, at least in my mind anyway, but I will let voters decide
Hope you have found this debate interesting, best regards, Kirk
I will note, however, that it is interesting how the infinite can come into a discussion about something so seemingly finite as the area of a circle. Understanding infinities is one of the great steps that one must take when learning maths - it is a bit of a leap of faith at points, at first... but it's a rewarding study. Bear in mind that when 0 was first proposed, people (even mathematicians of the day) baulked. Then for negative numbers. Then for imaginary numbers (do they exist? No, but then neither do numbers exist - they are darned useful for getting real answers that are otherwise unattainable, though). People doubted that irrational numbers really existed even when the Greeks had a proof that the square root of 2 was irrational.
Maths is often at odds with our fundamental intuitions. But that's why we love it!
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Posted by AndyHood 3 years ago
Where do you get 179.9... from?
What is "exist"? Can the number one be said to exist?
I do deny that 0.000000000...ad infinitum...00001 is a useful representation, although it represents a number which is strictly equal to 0.
I fail to see how denial of 0.000...1 leads to denial of curves. That seems an obscure leap.
To then jump to not knowing about the rationality of pi seems equally obscure.
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Buncrana, the largest town in the Inishowen Peninsula, is positioned on the shores of Lough Swilly, Buncrana just 14 miles from Derry City and 27 miles north of Letterkenny. With a population of some 7000, the town has much to offer in terms of shopping, sporting and recreational amenities:-
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Conversation Between The Two May 12, 2011Posted by Erika in Uncategorized.
Annika: Do you want this Didi?
Carston: Noo…
Annika: Do you want this one Didi?
Carston: Noo…
Loop that a few times.. and it's not like Carston actually understand her.. it's just that no is his current favorite word..
Annika: (singing) Old MacDonald have a farm…
Carston: No no no…!
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Caston: No no no..!
Annika: (crying) Mommy, Didi gak kasih Annika nyanyi!! Didi is not letting me sing!!!
Carston is starting to have preference on songs.. so when he doesn't like the song that his sister is singing, he will keep shouting no to her..
Annika: (eating cookies) *chomp chomp chomp*
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As the two kids are getting older, there's more interaction between them.. a lot of them are really funny .. but usually causes a lot of chaos .. especially when they are in the car..
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Annika, on the other hand, is getting so grown up. Sometimes, she closes her door and says that she doesn't want the boy to go into her room because he makes a mess of her room..I thought I would only see this when she's a teenager.. haiz…
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Today's Culture Shock: Most of the schooling in Malawi is taught in English. At some point from either Standard 6 or Standard 7 (Grades 6 & 7), all the subjects in school are taught in English except for Chichewa. It's curious because even though all of their school notes are in English, most kids at that age have great difficulty at speaking or understanding the language.


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Davey D: "Religion. You always had religious elements in your music. Coming from a gospel background, I've always seen that, but at the same time I know you do run with people that are affiliated with the Orthodox Muslims. What's the deal are you Muslim or Christian or Buddhist. What?"
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LILONGWE (Reuters) - Malawi's High Court gave approval on Tuesday for U.S. pop star Madonna to adopt two children, bringing the total to four children the singer has taken into her care from the impoverished southern African country, a court official said.
Malawian judiciary spokesman Mlenga Mvula said the singer was inside the court in Lilongwe when the ruling was delivered.
"Today the High Court made a ruling that she should go ahead and adopt the two children," Mvula told Reuters. "In fact, at the time we were granting her the permission she was in the courtroom with her lawyers."
(Reporting by Mabvuto Banda; Writing by Mfuneko Toyana; Editing by James Macharia)


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Odlum Brown Colleges Cup @ UBC
The Bison's varsity team swam their first out of town meet of the season this past weekend in Vancouver. Starting off the meet on a strong note, the girls A team placed 3rd in the 200m Medley Relay. Following a successful relay, Kelsey Wog placed 2nd in the girls 100m Freestyle for the Bison's first medal of the weekend. To see the full results click here.
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Kelsey Wog- 100 free (2nd), 50 breast (1st), 100 IM (1st), 100 breast (1st), 200 free (1st), 200 IM (1st)
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How to set the temperature and moisture control on the warming drawer
Control knob
Push in and turn the control knob to turn on the warming drawer. The blue power indicator light will turn on and remain on while the warming drawer is in operation.
When finished, turn the control knob to Off to turn off the warming drawer. When the warming drawer is turned off, the blue power indicator light will go out and the drawer will begin to cool. The temperature is controlled by rotating the control knob to the desired setting. The temperature setting ranges from Lo to Hi on the warming drawer control to keep heated foods warm at the selected temperatures.
Moist-Dry slide control
The Moist-Dry slide control allows you to open or close the vent slots in the door. The Moist setting holds moisture in, while the Dry setting allows steam and moisture to escape from the drawer.
NOTE: Condensation may form on inner surfaces. This is normal.
- To keep foods moist, slide control to the Moist setting, which will close the vents. Closing the vents will seal the drawer and keep hot foods soft and moist.
- To keep foods crisp, slide control to the Dry setting, which will open the vents. Opening the vents releases moisture from the drawer and keeps hot foods crisp and dry.
To use Warming Drawer:
1. Push in and turn the control knob to the desired food warming setting: Lo (low), between Lo and Med (medium low), Med, (medium), between Med and Hi (medium high) or Hi (high).
NOTE: For best results, meats, seafood, poultry and any foods containing meat, seafood or poultry should be set to medium or higher.
2. Select Moist or Dry setting.
3. Allow warming drawer to preheat. Recommended minimum preheating times are 5 minutes for Lo, 10 minutes for Med, and 20 minutes for Hi.
4. Push in and turn the control knob to Off when finished.
The indoor/outdoor warming drawer is ideal for keeping hot, cooked foods at serving temperature. It is designed to operate properly either indoors or outdoors at temperatures down to 32°F (0°C). If the drawer is operated at temperatures colder than 32°F (0°C), performance may be affected.
Different types of food may be placed in the warming drawer at the same time. When keeping several types of food hot, use the setting for the highest temperature food in the warming drawer.
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Food must be cooked and at serving temperature before being placed in the warming drawer. Cover foods with a lid. Breads, pastries and fruit pies may be heated from room temperature on the Hi setting.
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Our contest has ended, thanks to all for participating. There were a lot of you :-)
Gabriel and Bruno have been picked from the raffle and have been contacted. They will receive their SSD Disk shortly!
How you could have hacked the website:
- The source code of the pages contains the book Moby Dick. At the end you can see the line: 'That was fun ... If only we could add some layout to the book'.
- The line above points at the included CSS stylesheet styles.css. If you reformat the minified CSS, you are able to find a link to the github repository: 'https://github.com/phpro/security-workshop'.
- In the github repository you can see that the image is loaded from the database, but there are no database credentials available. So the next step is to find out where the database credentials are stored.
- In the commit history, you can find a commit titled 'Removed DB connection from index file.'. The changeset contains the database credentials of the server but you won't be able to connect on the port 9999.
- Since you can't connect on port 9999, you'll have to find out which port is opened. This can be done with e.g. the command 'nmap hackme.phpro.be'. This will return port 9998.
- At this point you will be able to connect to the database. You won't be able to read the images table but a view imagesColumns is available.
- Based on the imagesColumns view you will be able to create an INSERT statement and therefore change the image on the hackme website.
Securing the hackme application.
Since this contest started out as an internal project, we've put a lot of focus on the flow on how to hack the website.
It was just a little side project to inform our colleagues that some small mistakes can end up in a big catastrophe.
By focussing on the flow of the hackme contest, we forgot to secure the application for malicious contestants.
Off course, this was something that fired back to us on the first days of the competition.
Here is a little write-up of the problems we've encountered and how we fixed them.
One of the first hackers of the website noted that the website was vulnerable for XSS attacks.
It was pretty naive of us to think that the hacker won't try to inject HTML or JavaScript code to the application.
Adding input validation was not possible since the user has direct insert permissions on the database.
So the only thing we could do is add output filtering by using the htmlspecialchars() method in PHP.
A little piece of JavaScript was added to make sure that if an image could not be loaded, a demotivational anti-xss image was shown:
;(function($) { $(function() { var image = $('#hackme-image'); var hackedUrl = image.data('src'); var failedUrl = '/xss-breakfast.jpg'; image .on('error', function() { image.attr('src', failedUrl); }) .attr('src', hackedUrl) ; }); })(jQuery);
More information on output escaping.
A few hours later, it looked like this type of protection was not enough.
One of the contestants inserted the image URL: http://superlogout.com/ which resulted in getting logged out in frequently used services like gmail and Facebook.
Another one of the contestants added JavaScript to an SVG image:
<svg width="580" height="400" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <g> <title>background</title> <rect fill="#fff" id="canvas_background" height="402" width="582" y="-1" x="-1"/> <g display="none" overflow="visible" y="0" x="0" height="100%" width="100%" id="canvasGrid"> <rect fill="url(#gridpattern)" stroke-width="0" y="0" x="0" height="100%" width="100%"/> </g> </g> <g> <title>Layer 1</title> <text xml:space="preserve" text-anchor="start" font-family="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" font-size="24" id="svg_1" y="201" x="232.5" stroke-width="0" stroke="#000" fill="#000000">HACKED</text> </g> <script type="text/javascript"> alert('This site is vulnerable to XSS attacks!'); </script> </svg>
The JavaScript gets executed when a contestant visits the website.
This means that we'll have to protect against this type of attacks and improve our simple htmlspecialchars output filtering.
We've done this by validating if the user added a valid URL. The extension of the file was validated by a whitelist of allowed extensions:
More information about validating uploaded files.
The security we've added ended up looking like this:
function xssProtect($url) { $invalidUrl = '/xss-breakfast.jpg'; $allowedExt = ['jpg', 'jpeg', 'gif', 'png', 'bmp', 'tiff']; $url = htmlspecialchars($url); if (filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL, ~FILTER_FLAG_SCHEME_REQUIRED & ~FILTER_FLAG_HOST_REQUIRED) === false) { return $invalidUrl; } $parsed = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH); if (!$parsed) { return $invalidUrl; } $file = basename($parsed); $fileParts = pathinfo($file); $extension = isset($fileParts['extension']) ? strtolower($fileParts['extension']) : ''; if (!in_array($extension, $allowedExt)) { return $invalidUrl; } return $url; }
Of course this type of protection is not enough and has some flaws:
- It is not possible to add endpoints that don't contain an image prefix. This means that short URLs are not possible.
By adding this type of prevention, we managed to demotivate new contestants in finding additional XSS holes.
You might think that our problems where solved at this time, but guess again ... The next wave of issues was there.
Since we are loading the last image based on ID sorting DESC, there was someone that inserted a record int the last possible ID of the mysql INT type.
Mysql will always try to add 1 to the last inserted ID, which results in an integer overflow.
This is an issue that should not happen in a normal application, so we temporarily patched this issue by making the field a mysql BIGINT type.
Of course this patch only rescued the application for exactly 2 minutes, so we had to think fast and come up with a bullet proof solution:
CREATE TRIGGER images_cleandata BEFORE INSERT ON images FOR EACH ROW BEGIN SET NEW.id = NULL; SET NEW.creation_date = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP; END$$
After creating this trigger, we had to remove the id column and re-add it again to reset the auto increment values of the table.
When a user inserts a new record with a high id, it is reset to NULL by the trigger and the AUTO_INCREMENT options kicks in from that point.
It also made sure that the contestant could not tamper with the creation date.
At this point, the contestants started to get more aggressive by writing cronjobs or automated scripts to spam the mysql server with insert commands.
This hack was problematic since we wrote a cronjob that mails us every time there were new records in the images table. You can imagine how bloated my mailbox got at that point, so I decided to only send these mails once an hour.
The first time we've encountered these kind of bots, we thought we could stop these contestants from spamming the server by replacing the image url with a demotivational crons image.
CREATE TRIGGER images_cleandata BEFORE INSERT ON images FOR EACH ROW BEGIN -- Try to avoid random query strings: set @baseUrl := (SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX(NEW.imageURL, '?', 1)); -- Search for duplicate records: SET @croncount := ( SELECT COUNT(id) FROM images WHERE ( imageURL = NEW.imageURL OR imageURL LIKE CONCAT(@baseUrl, '?%') OR imageURL = @baseUrl ) AND `name` = NEW.name AND email = NEW.email AND location = NEW.location ); -- Overwrite anti cron / bot image IF @croncount >= 10 THEN SET NEW.imageURL = 'http://hackme.phpro.be/cron-nam.png'; END IF; -- Set defaults: SET NEW.id = NULL; SET NEW.creation_date = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP; END$$
As you can see, the cron now looks for image URLs that occurred 10 times in the database. If the image was inserted more then 10 times, the demotivational cron image gets displayed.
At some later point we also needed to add the baseUrl check since the bots were getting smarter and where adding some random hash in the query part of the URL. This fix made some of the bots stop, but some other bots just did not notice so we needed to find out from which IP they were spamming the server. We did this by adding a new host field to the images table and also filled this field by altering the trigger:
CREATE TRIGGER images_cleandata BEFORE INSERT ON images FOR EACH ROW BEGIN -- Look for host: set @host := (SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX(USER(), '@', -1)); -- ... snap ... -- Set defaults: SET NEW.host = @host; END$$
At first we've used the host field from the `information_schema.processes` table. Normally this should work, but since the code is run inside a trigger, the current host is always localhost:randomport. After some looking around we noticed that we could use the built-in `USER()` function which returns the name of the mysql user and the name of the actual host. For example: hackMe@myhost.
Now that we've got the host of the contestant and get notified about spamming bots, it is easy to ban the ip using iptables.
We did not automate this process to make sure that no contestant gets banned for a crime they did not commit.
iptables -A INPUT -s yourhost -p tcp --destination-port 9998 -j DROP
After we applied this fix, the bots were getting smarter again and only inserted a new image when the image on the website changed since the last time they checked. Since they were constantly looping between 2 or 3 images, it was easy to determine if it was a bot that was inserting the images or a real user. If we found out that is was a bot, we ip banned the bot and removed the inserted record so that the last real image was displayed again.
As you can imagine, it was a long road to fully protecting this very very simple application.
The lessons we've learned from this project is: Don't take security for granted!
Real hackers will always find a way to destroy your application.
It's all about monitoring, the counter measures you take and the amount of time you need to implement these protections!


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A court in Kosovo has detained a Kosovo Albanian for allegedly working with Serbian troops and committing war crimes in 1999.
Agim Sahitaj has been remanded for one month, after claims that we worked with Serbian troops in April 1999 as they "killed, wounded, beat and harassed Kosovo Albanian civilians, looted their possessions and forcibly expelled them from their homes," reports Balkan Insight.
The perpetrator was allegedly uniformed and armed at the time.
"During April 1999, Agim Sahitaj, alongside members of Serbian forces, entered a house in the village of Sopi in Suhareka/Suva Reka, where he injured [victim S.E.] in the right foot, while killing A.K., then the suspect shot in the direction of A.E., but fortunately did not hit the target," Special Prosecutor Syle Hoxha said.
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UBS estimates that Imagination will be loss-making by fiscal 2019 without Apple's payments and will have to take cost cutting measures to address this.
Earlier this month, Imagination Technologies announced that Apple had informed the company that in 15 months to 2 years it will no longer use its intellectual property for GPUs. Rather, as previously reported, the company is building its own GPU.
In the announcement, Imagination suggested it would see Apple in court claiming "it would be extremely challenging to design a brand new GPU architecture from basics without infringing its intellectual property rights."
UBS forecasts Apple is likely to ratchet down the royalty rate it currently pays of around $0.30 to closer to $0.10 - the rate Imagination charges customers such as MediaTek.
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